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In vitro toxicity indicators /

About the Series: In the tradition of Methods in Enzymology and Methods in Neurosciences, Academic Press is pleased to announce a new serial: Methods in Toxicology. There is a pressing need among researchers involved in toxicologic investigation for a series of publications that organizes and presen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tyson, Charles A., Frazier, John M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Diego : Academic Press, [1994]
Colección:Methods in toxicology ; v. 1B.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Perspectives
  • Cellular and molecular pathobiology of reversible and irreversible injury
  • Molecular mechanisms of toxic cell death: an overview
  • Membrane lipid peroxidation: cellular mechanisms and toxicological implications
  • Membrane integrity and function
  • Enzyme leakage as an indicator of cytoxicity in cultured cells
  • Cellular K
  • Morphological and biochemical investigations on plasma membrane blebbing during cell injury
  • Morphological evaluation of gap junctional intercellular communication.
  • Fluorescence microscopic examination of cytoskeletal elements
  • Energy coupled Na cotransport
  • Renal organic ion transport
  • Endoplasmic reticulum calcium pump
  • Energy metabolism
  • Measurement of oxygen consumption
  • ATP and other energetic parameters as indicators of cell injury
  • Evaluation of glucose metabolism in vitro: altered competence of intermediary metabolism as an index of hepatotoxicity
  • DNA-related indices
  • Quantitation of DNA by fluorometry
  • Techniques for measuring cell proliferation.
  • Nuclease P1-enhanced ³²P-postlabeling assay for aromatic carcinogen-DNA adducts
  • Genomic hypomethylation
  • DNA degradation: double-strand breaks
  • Genotypic mutation analysis by RFLP/PCR
  • Functional indices
  • Gluconeogenesis in liver cells
  • Measurement of protein synthesis
  • Measuring collagen synthesis
  • Measurement of macrophage phagocytosis using a sheep red blood cell assay
  • Biochemical indices
  • Cell function studies using fluorescent Ca² indicators
  • Ca²-bioluminescent indicators.
  • Measurement of receptor-activated accumulation of inositol phosphates as an index of phospholipase C activity
  • Covalent binding to proteins
  • Glutathione, oxidized glutathione and mixed disulfides in biological samples
  • Lipid peroxidation
  • Thiobarbituric acid assay reactants
  • Volatile hydrocarbons
  • Electronically excited state formation
  • Spectrophotometric detection of lipid-conjugated dienes
  • Quantitation of conjugated dienes by a dieles-alder reaction
  • Quantitation of conjugated dienes by second-derivative UV spectroscopy.
  • Specialized techniques
  • Centrifuge filtration separation of cells and the measurement of constituents
  • Flow cytometry
  • Single-cell microscopic techniques for studying toxic injury
  • Measurement of macrophage and neutrophil chemotaxis
  • Two-dimensional electrophoresis as applied to problems of in vitro and in vivo toxicology.